John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz FBA (22 June 1927 - 11 July 2022[1]) was a German-born British historian who specialized in late antiquity.
The family had been wealthy, having inherited a large fortune from Wolf's great-grandfather Brach, who amassed wealth trading in Texas and Mexico though much was lost in the German inflation.
He performed National Service in the Canal Zone in Egypt, as a sergeant in the Royal Army Educational Corps.
Liebeschuetz studied Ancient and Medieval History at University College London, where his teachers included A. H. M. Jones and John Morris.
In 1993 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
[10] Discussing the ethnogenesis model developed by Herwig Wolfram of the Vienna School of History, Liebeschuetz argued that the Visigoths emerged as a people under the leadership of Alaric I and his successors.
[11] He felt that many members of this project denied the impact or even existence of Germanic peoples, and also sought to blacklist the traditional idea that the Roman Empire had declined.
[14] Liebeschuetz argued that these scholars were practising an ideologically dogmatic and flawed form of scholarship, and manipulating history to promote multiculturalism and European federalism.